Pulley-rim covering.



H. PUTSCH.

PULLEY RIM COVERINC;s

AYPPLscATloN FILED sinds. |915.

1,257,530, Patented Feb.26,1918

l amants Q .may

UNITED .STATES PATENT OFFICE.

, or cnIoA'GO, ILLINOIS, AssIGNoa rro Power; orma MANUFACTURING confermi, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION.

rULLEY-BIM covEaING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 26, 1918.

Application led September 13, 1915. Serial Ifo. 50,479.

ing`to be a full, clear, and exact description' of the invention, such as will enable Others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and ,use the same.

This yinvention relates to pulleys, and more especially to the rim coverings therefor; land the object of thesame is to f,provide a coating for the rims Or surfaces o, wheels or drums tfly wheels, 0 1' pulleys carrying belts ahi-i1 win prevent the Sliding and snpping of the' belt thereon and therefore increase the power, and which will prolong the 'life o f the belt. This object has hereto'fore been attained .in a certain measure by coating the faceV of the pulley rim with various compositions and sometimesby plying strips .to said face, but the gist of present ,invention lies in covering said face with a. coating of splastic' material which' is reinforced by .an embedded netting of coarse mesh. Details o f the invention and the manner ofapplying its layers of plastic and netting. are set foit'h in the following specification and shown in the drawings' wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a pulley rim covered with a twoply coating according to .my invention, the layers of ,the coating bein .shown in section on different lines and t e netting of one ,layer being 11p-turned to illustrate its construction. Fig. 2'is a cross section of a flat pulley rim Iwhich is .crowned bythe use of my covering, and Fig. 3 is a. cross section of a spe' cial` orm o'f pulley rim described below.

The remaining views are small diagrams showing several ways in which the strips of nettin may be Wound as they are a plied.-

In t e drawings the vletter P desi ates a pulle having a rim R whose face usually at transversely as shownfjn ig r1, and

"g .is up' dl-.ether when thepulley is' ma" oi" subsequently. The covering comprises?. layer G iqf,plastic, such as ue compounded with sli'catesineto this face my c-overi chanical y mixed with dextrin; and embedded in this plastic a'layer M of open-work netting Buch as wire cloth, asbestos, veged table fiber, Or even coarse cheesecloth or inuslin. The netting is wholly embedded in the plastic yas by being applied thereon before the lastic has set, and the layers are repeated if desired. A distinction is made between fabrics of coarse mesh such as canvas which has been lheretofore employed for this purpose, and fabrics of open mesh.

which I use. Coarse mesh might imply .a fabric whose war-p and weft were of coarse strands .0r were floosely .Woven together: by.

O pen mesh I mean a fabric so Woven that there .are clear openings between its strands as best seen in 1 A.Where {the netting M -is 4turnednp. so the .netting ,is embedded within the layer of plastic so that it serves as .a reinforce .therefor :1 -iid no part. of any of A,its meshes appears on the eX- terior, at least, when the covering of the pulley is new. It results that the belt comes in contact only With fthe outermost layer o-f plastic which must therefore be `of a coin-- postion ,possessing .a suitable 4cling .and which is not unduly susceptible to Wear Aor heat. The exact ingredients of this composition gfoim .no ypart `of Athe present invention,

nor is the manner vin which the covering is applied to the rim essential; but in order that .the treated -pulley shall be strictly round I prefer that each la er .pass cornpletely around the wheel an' that 'the -seyeral convolutions of 4the netti-ng, if there are several, shall break jointwith each .other so-that at all points around .the circumference ofthe rim there shall be an equal rnumber ofthe layers or strips of netting.

Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate how the face of thet rim may .be arched or crowned 'transversely by theapplication of this covering. Asum- .ing that such face -isjlat aBI-shown .in Fig'. 2, I would apply fthe inner layer G .of plastic direct to a strip yalong thetransverse center of this face, lthen lay the inner stri -.M of v netting over 1sgi-id liiyerbf [plastic w ile the layer .was stillsoftand dnaw ittightsothat it sinks into the and is more .-Or less Completely .then l 'would .up 1y theJayerEG 'of 4over the, rat

re' .forced wetend-.1 riitsli buy-wider y as s own, and over this I woul apply thev net @trip M nf-intting, :this :second wein# ,forced ilayer reaching either completely to the edges E of the rim as shown, or only part way to such edges if therel is 'tol be a subsequent layer which need not be deA ayers of scribed. In this manner the variouslayers grow successively'wider and wider, the narrower ones actin as supports for the transverse centerpof t e wider ones, and linally the outermostlayer is arched or crowned as shown, and the desired contour is given to the face of the treated pulley.

In Fig. 3 the rim may or may not be dat on its face, but at its sides it is provided with shoulders `as indicated at S. M v improved. covering may be applied in the manner already described if the face is fiat, or it may be applied in amequal number "of layers all over the face if the latter itself be\arched; but in this instance the outermost layer, or layers, are carried over the edges of the rim` and down into the shoulders' as shown.

If the plastic lmaterial be such that it has any tendency to yield, orI whenever it becomes worn or thin, it is undesirable'thatany strip of the nettin should be carried around it and the ends o the strip lapped, because such lap would produce a spot in the plastic which was harder than elsewherel and which would naturally suffer most from Wear. Ac-

cordingly I pre-fer that every stripv break joint-with every' other, or if but a single strip Vof netting beemployed its ends shall be brought to and quite into contact but without being lapped. The netting may be in a single strip givenseveral convolutions, and the plastic applied between them; or

thenetting may be 1n a plurality of strips applied independently. The simplest form 1s shown in Fig. 4 where the netting is a.

strip making a single convolution, beginning at 1 and passing around the plastic as above described, and terminating at 4 near the' point 1 but Without the ends of the strip overlapping each other; This would be used where the coating is butone layer of plastic thus lreinforced ,with onestrip of netting.

' In Fig. i` the netting begins at the point 1 and' makes one complete'yconvolution to the point 2, and then itis carried out over the inner end '1 and makes another convolution, and its outer end r4 terminates over thel point 2 butdoes not lap thef'inner end. This netting would probably be employed where there are two layers of plastic, although obviously fthe plastic might be thicker and a two-ply net'tlng' embedded in it. l In Fig.l 6 `a single str lpbeglns at 1' and makes a convolution, ,is

. then carried outward at 2 and makes a second convolution, isth'en carried out at 3 and Amakes athird convolution, and terminates at 4. Fig. 7 shows perhaps the simplest manner of winding two separate strips, one be- 'nnmg at 1 and endi'rg at 4and the other eginmng at 411 and en mg at 14 s o that the :forms a coating on l and 1s bonded together between the meshes iin presence o two witnesses. v y .y y HENRY-ILU'ISGJIAI. Witnesses:y Y u ends of the' two strips break joint with each other and stand preferably at opposite sides of the pulley.

strips, but the same ldea prevails. The open mesh of the netting permits the plastic to ooze through the same if the nettlng is tipplied before the plastic has set, and this isj he remaining views shoW-. other windings employing a plurality of terial 'applied thereto with an open-meshed,

reinforcing fabric embedded entirely Within such material, whereby the adhesive material each side of the fabric of such fabric.

9.. A pulley having ori its face a 'coating comprising a body of adhesive plastic material applied thereto, with layers of an open meshed, reinforcing fabric embedded entirel within such material whereby,tl xe maL teria forms a coatin on each side of each layer oft fabric and t e respective coatings are bonded together between the-,meshes of each interposed layer 0f fabric.

3. A pu ley havin lon its face a coating comprising a bod o hardened, viscous and adhesive materia applied thereto, with an open-meshed, reinforcing fabric embedded -entirely within such material, whereby the viscous material forms an adhesive coating on each side of the fabric, adhering to the pulley face and bonded together between the meshes of the fabric.

4. A pulleyhaving on face a, lcoatl ing comprising a body of hardened, and adhesive material a plied thereto, with layers of an open-meshe reinforcing fabric' embedded entirely within such material, Vwhereby the viscous material forms an adhesive coating on each sideof each layerrof fabric, the innermost coating adhering to .110; the pulley face, and the respective coatings being bonded together betweenthe meshes of each interposed layer of fabric.

4In testimon whereof I ax 131mm. R. Formas, Emme C. Gramm.

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